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et and ran

et and ran is the simple past of eat and run.

Meaning of eat and run

Verb

eat and run (third-person singular simple present eats and runs, present participle eating and running, simple past ate and ran, past participle eaten and run)

  1. (colloquial, figuratively, intransitive) To consume a meal/snack quickly, then soon after depart immediately and/or in a hurry.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see eat, and, run.

Questions about et and ran

What is et and ran the simple past of?
Et and ran is the simple past of eat and run.

Words near et and ran in the dictionary

  1. et alia
  2. et aliae
  3. et alibi
  4. et alii
  5. et alios
  6. et and ran
  7. et cetera
  8. et ceteras
  9. et ceteræ
  10. et con
  11. et con.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: et and ran (page history and authors); eat and run (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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